HISTORICAL FRAMEWORK: THE RATIONALIZATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF KNOWLEDGE

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During the 18th century -> Enlightment the an important group in society was?

bourgoisie

What are the Characteristics of the Architectural style during the Enlightment?

  1. A neo-classicist style, in line with antiquity and the renaissance. The history of those kinds of city and architecture is finite and can be studied and categorized.
  2. the history has its regularities, because the design is based on mimesis, imitation, emulating nature. Nature becomes natural history. 
  3. based on rationalism

There was an opposite style of the Neo-Classic during the Renaissance, what was it name and on which principle was it based?

Romanticism - irrationalism
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What was a hallmark of the Enlightment?

Individualism

During the enlightenment the concept sublime was introduced. What is differences between beauty and sublime?

When experiencing beauty, reason and imagination were in harmony, but the sublime was a dual experience; it was overwhelming, fraught with fearsome shapes and frightening events, which people still found fascinating and somehow pleasurable.

What become the most important source of inspiration in the Enlightment? and Why?

Nature, because nature was both rational and true.

Which style revived during the Enlightment?

the revival of Gothicism

During the Enlightenment knowledge was stored systematically in Encyclopedias. What important new insight was gained by storing building (elements) in such way?

categorizing important buildings and analyzing them according to their parts and elements. leads to a system where those elements could systematically be combined again in several variants. The idea of a design method was born. It was an approach that was a precursor to the standardized production methods of the industrial era

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